Friday, June 23, 2006

Hubble telescope's key camera stops working

Doom and gloom for hubble fans? The Advanced Camera for Surveys is out of action with a power supply problem. NASA will spend the next week diagnosing the problem. The good news is that remain confident the camera can be fixed.
NOOO, that isn't good, they definatly need to send up a shuttle to fix it! There is a connection to that telescope and to my family, because a relative of mine worked on the, I think the main lense for the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 90's. From that, I'm a proponent of wanting them to continue to fix the Hubble, because it still brings alot of high quality pictures from space still....

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